it's called try to stay. calm d.w. . with the different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom for its global news that matters to a w made form arms. this is feed every news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes the cameroonians on the move people in the english speaking region are leaving their homes in the thousands often sippers as rebels threaten the lockdown. and we introduce you to minsk in goma the south african taxi driver who's become an opera singing sensation.

hello i'm christine linda welcome to day to africa it's good to have you along tens of thousands of people have fled towns in english speaking of cameroon off to renewed fighting between the military and say persists and a lockdown in the region the separatists have called for a lockdown after their leader julius i was sentenced to life in prison for suspicion and hostility against the state in the north western town off by amanda transport providers were overwhelmed with the number of travelers waiting at bus terminals people lawfully into french speaking towns despite or burridge he's urging them not to. raise joins me from boyer that's the capital of the southwest region off camera. plays tell us about this this. movement is planning why are people so fearful off it.

the reason why people are afraid of this low down is because the separatists is going to last for 3 weeks 1st secondly to say any policy to see on the streets in this direction in this period will cost us a spy for me to be as a spy for the government are you going to be gone down so a lot of people are afraid and in a lockdown like this it means that people are supposed to stay home you know supposed to go are you supposed to go to the market you know supposed to go out to fish what it means everybody sees all many people are really scared just want a lot of people and even it's all right so there's since been renewed fighting what can you tell us about that. yes our image of the of it did after the announcement at 10 separate is that its interests will live imprisonment in places like we saw a group one of those severances militia called the. women i was selling in markets

and and i'll tell you how out of competitions also in the south was in some parts of the south was between separatists and government forces and and like a missionary separatist forces are also in a form of protest right live rounds in places like going into. base give us a sense of how much support staff as a separatist movement have a man cameroonians in the anish speak regions. and i think there's a huge some point but we want a school is that not all and reforms and agree on that approach so some people believe that this does happen then we can cause but some people do not believe that they are true should be violence it should be. burning down is solutions attacking what missile yes but the reason of huge support in terms of i mean the sense in for decision or whatever to say we are marginalized going to the other people who have been. right now the government has been betting the at your phone separatist since

we saw the 1st signs of violence in 2016 planes give us a sense of what's that meant for people on the ground that well house if it's a daily life. i mean on the ground it's really means if you go through the calm one month because these are 2 persons hold it the 2 entities or the so you have the government the state of on one side you have the services on the other side so when the separatists and the government have a competition there is no front line to this war this war is fought on the streets is for the markets what and where government forces suspect that they are separate use. of fighting that's all she does to get sometimes of course in the crossfire or one of the. most effective or the sectors in the spot of the country kitchen education has really been heat since the crisis begun in trying to 16 and into a conflict in 2070 do you know in use when to investigate and see how kids are

coping in these time with schools are not opening in the infant regions and they speaking to me earlier from his report he's mentioned about children being forced to stay out of school food chicagoans is the father of 3 children all of them including his 7 year old daughter brilliant have been out of school for the past 3 years english speaking separatist bandage occasion in the area and 2016 as a way of exerting pressure on the francophone government many parents like collins are too afraid to defy the ban very very important for me to send my 10 to school you know you cannot millenia in an environment i do you cannot be living with less is so does our own classes things like that because money is something that comes with a pen and

a pupil not been read in the web forms things like that i don't. this school in the city of kumba was one of the few that kept teaching students despite the ban but now it's also closed its doors it was just too dangerous for staff and students to risk coming here more than 2000 pupils used to learn at the school the vast majority of them currently have no alternative place of education menace course across 4 regions half shut down just like this and some of those relocated to areas they consider say collins does as much as he can to teach his children. some families are hiring private tutors or sending their kids to underground schools in private homes but collins simply can't afford these options he also doesn't have enough money to move to a safer area where some schools are still operating under massive security patrol

this means brilliant test a full go the luxury of a school education. and . you like to go back to school. last week a military tribunal handed down life sentences to 10 and often separatist leaders including io tabby the head of the movement. i born in congo is a human rights lawyer and a vocal advocate for the under phones he believes students should return to class but he says the sentencing of the separatists will destroy efforts to get schools reopened is the sea shore has taken us a little bit back because what already was security situation all. cleared up. so what the cypriote is with because

a lot didn't know want kids to go to school but to give reasons now for those when the media those without without it would send the kids to school to use the security situation on as an excuse for kids not to go back to school. collins now works as an assistant trainer at a local football academy. it offers free training to children who are out of school . all the kids here haven't sat in a proper classroom for at least a year as the conflict drags on a generation of cameroonians are growing up without an education. an extra as in south africa where a taxi driver's singing career got a stop to a video of him went viral a passenger recorded means in goma belting out opera in a turban cab the video has since collected 3 quarter of a 1000000 years the japanese agent krrish took a ride with the serenading driver. i

just landed at the airport here in durban the sun is still shining the weather's beautiful there's only one down side b. airport here is pretty far away from the city center but even that is not a big deal for me today because i have a very special taxi driver waiting for me. since he was just 27 years old south africa already knows he shot to fame when the passenger films him singing opera in this taxi and the video went viral. oh oh she. was like. it's just get to my emotions so much because i didn't realize it will go the spot. it can't just go to

facebook maybe. he was one of them or just said no can you bring that guy to come and perform in my wedding or something like that just just a small things it's overwhelming like kids. menzies' phone is constantly when he gets requests for interviews from all over the world invitations to perform and give or dishes to men's wear shop even offer to miss the taxi to for his next event. like an opera singer a guy who's driving and he sings some a cookie this is very interesting you know so just through i was really excited to meet him and to see even better now that i see him in person. menzi is currently rehearsing for an upcoming performance at the piano player is menzies former teacher below mccann is known menzies since primary school. at

no formal music training he's mostly self-taught since he was young i can see that his colleagues who scored something special you seem an only biko prestigious you know he did because the eve he does have a talent the next day when z. is off to cape town he's been invited to take part in a competition for professional opera singers and he's feeling optimistic. to be my 1st time seeing the competition and i know many within the i'm so excited about this to see just bones who can tell. us it's not good to see him come into. the. come a final run through in the dressing room and really really. then it's the stuff i be.

coming the was going through the. top of the them. thank you trounce of applause for menzies but unfortunately it's not enough to secure a 1st price. we. he's. living would be with you i was back in durban it's back to taxi driving for the time. was absolutely father and i need to put bread on the table as well so i have to when i have to with that kind i cannot stop because i haven't got that stable income. this flame but it's good

that i can see it so it's going there. menzies determined to advance his career he says luck is still on his side every chance you know this is as good as good. and leave it all that you know it's that's a one hour from date everything is africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page. until next time it's by and out. we go africa. the bigger animals around don't want attention but don't overlook the little farce very endangered sure. you can do something to protect them. and. we presume free success stories from south africa. identifying rare plants or replanting them creating an urban oasis. next.

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